{"id":9560,"date":"2021-09-28T11:45:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T16:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedisciplemaker.org\/?p=9560"},"modified":"2022-03-04T21:51:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T21:51:54","slug":"the-relative-merits-of-thinking-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2021\/09\/the-relative-merits-of-thinking-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Relative Merits of Thinking Slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<p>About a year after the <a href=\"\/quarantine-soul-care\/\">world went inside<\/a> in spring 2020, I found myself suddenly, finally, in the same room with a quorum of my coworkers at NavPress. We could only see each other\u2019s eyes, as the mask mandate was still in full force. They may remember it differently, but I remember being a bit gobsmacked. I hadn\u2019t realized how much I missed them. I struggled to think of what to say to them. I\u2019m pretty sure I just stared at them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My educational background is in history, and so when I consider how to think about the year we\u2019ve just had, my first thought tends to be, <em>Ask me again in a few years.<\/em> We\u2019re still <em>this close <\/em>to the pandemic year, still taking inventory of the impact of that year of isolation on our <a href=\"\/grace-leads-to-relationships\/\">relationships<\/a>, our rhythms, our ways of being in the world. We have an economy to rebuild. I\u2019ve got like fifteen pounds I need to lose. It\u2019s really just too soon, and there are other urgencies to address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ironically, this inability to adequately consider what there is to consider about this year of disruption tends, I think, to cause us to rush our way through taking stock. \u201cThink fast!\u201d the saying goes, and it\u2019s usually accompanied by someone throwing something at our face. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Sometimes It&#8217;s Better to Think Slowly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We were two months into the global pandemic when we received our first book proposal that mentioned it. I don\u2019t mind telling you I found it pretty brazen: \u201cThe gospel is like a coronavirus . . .\u201d \u201cThink fast!\u201d this author seemed to shout at us. It made me want to lose my sense of smell, it poisoned the air around me so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A week or so later I found in my inbox not one but two press releases for books based entirely on COVID-19. \u201cIn your face!\u201d was the message I received. There was hardly anything to know yet about this virus, and here we were, buried in books and book proposals telling us all about it. Too soon, bros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That experience set us to thinking about what we ought to think about as we thought about the pandemic. (Try reading that sentence three times fast.) We ultimately found ourselves with a book idea that we think will actually help us all, collectively, emerge thoughtfully from our pandemic year. <em>When the Universe Cracks <\/em>releases October 5, 2021 and looks beyond COVID-19 to crises of all sorts and how God\u2019s people move through them to love God and our neighbors well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Learning to Think and Live Well<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>When the Universe Cracks<\/em> opened up for us a larger conversation about what else we should be thinking carefully and slowly about. So <em>When the Universe Cracks <\/em>is now the first in what we expect will be a running series of what we\u2019re calling \u201cKingdom Conversations,\u201d in which people from a variety of backgrounds consider together how God might be leading us through the complexities of our times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This sort of thing, I think, is what books are for and what books do best. Books are an enduring record of <a href=\"\/four-steps-to-start-growing-in-patience\/\">patient <\/a>reflection. They help us remember how we have thought well, and they help us consider how to think well for the future. And of course the best books don\u2019t just help us <em>think <\/em>well; they help us <em>live <\/em>well, keeping in step with a God who loves us as well as he leads us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So keep an eye out for <em>When the Universe Cracks <\/em>and other Kingdom Conversations to come. And when someone tells you to think fast, take a few minutes to consider the alternative option of thinking slow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author\"><figure class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__avatar\"><img alt=\"David Zimmerman\" class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__avatar-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZIMMERMAN-Author-photo-bordered.png\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__content\"><span class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__name\">David Zimmerman<\/span><p class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__biography\">is in his 28th year in the Christian publishing industry and serves as the NavPress publisher. 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